Lower motor neuron syndrome associated with anti-GM 1 antibodies
Medicina [B.Aires]
; 57(3): 270-4, 1997.
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ABSTRACT
It has been recently recognized that increased titers of serum anti-GM1 antibodies may be associated with motoneurone diseases or with multiple motor neuropathy with or without conduction block and also with chronic sensorimotor neuropathy and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Santoro et al. were the first to note that anti-GM1 antibodies were able to bind to the nodes of Ranvier of the sural nerve of a patient with clinical signs and symptoms mostly resembling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis who also showed, in nerve conduction studies, multifocal motor nerve fibers conduction block and serum IGM anti-GM1 antibodies. The who patients presented in this report had asymetrical motor neurone disease with signs and symptoms of lower motoneurose involvement, and other signs, in the first patient, which suggested the existence of upper motoneurone damage. Besides, the second patient also had clinical sensory impairment in the lower limbs. Electrophysiologically, none of them had nerve conduction block but both showed inexcitable median and sural nerve sensory fibers. Both had high titers of anti-GM1. A sural biopsy of both patients showed immunoglobulins into the sensory fibers. However, we do not know whether the anti-GM1 antibodies bind to a cross-reactive glycolipid other than the GM1 itself. In any case, it seems that the presence of anti-GM1 antibodies might be a marker signalling a potentially treatable immune disorder which may have signs of lower and upper motor neurone disease and, also, clinical and electrophysiological evidence of peripheral sensory involvement. (AU)
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06-national
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Base de dados:
BINACIS
Assunto principal:
Doença dos Neurônios Motores
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Gangliosídeo G(M1)
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Anticorpos
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Medicina [B.Aires]
Ano de publicação:
1997
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Article